Chapter 21

**Chapter 21**

His touch felt like fire. I was overwhelmed with nausea and anger. I struggled against him, but that only made him grip me tighter. It was clear that he was much stronger than I was, and no matter how hard I fought, I couldn’t break free.

The training I received in my defense classes didn’t help me much. He hurt my body and made me feel weaker as a person. On top of that, my wolf was blocking me, so I couldn’t tap into her strength at all.

He bit my lower arm, and the pain shot through me.

I gasped in pain as he caught my lip. In that moment, he took the opportunity to push his tongue into my mouth. I quickly pushed against his chest as he began to move me toward my bed. Panic rushed over me so quickly that I felt completely overwhelmed.

I lost my train of thought. In a rush, I bit down on his tongue as hard as I could. It made him stop kissing me and howl in pain.

I pushed him away again, but he wouldn’t let go of me.

Ethan’s lips moved to the back of my neck, right above a mark that had stubbornly remained after he had rejected me. He bit gently just above that mark, and I could feel him sucking on my skin with a surprising intensity.

“Ethan, get off me!” I exclaimed.

I demanded to know what was happening. I could feel his smile against the back of my neck as he released my skin from his teeth.

“Gladly,” he muttered as he let me go, and I fell to the ground with a thud.

My neck throbbed, and I could still sense the lingering warmth of his smile.

His kisses were intense, filled with biting and sucking. I felt my fingers tremble as I reached up to touch the area on my skin. I winced when I realized a hickey was forming. A distressed whimper escaped my lips, but he quickly shushed me. When I looked up,

As I looked at him, I saw that he had pulled out his phone. On the screen, I noticed Irene’s name flashing. She was calling him. Of course, I thought to myself, she would be.

He answered the call and turned his attention to the conversation.

“Hey, babe,” he said sweetly. His voice changed from bitter to loving in just a moment. I pulled myself up to my feet using the bed for support and wrapped my arms around myself.

I was really trying to keep myself calm. “Yeah, I just stepped out for a bit. I’ll be home soon, though. Do you want me to pick up anything to eat?”

He paused for a moment, and I sat on the edge of the couch, waiting for his reply.

I sat on my bed, my legs refusing to move. Tears burned in my eyes, but I wouldn’t let them fall while he was standing in my bedroom. I wasn’t going to show him my weakness.

“Sure,” I said. “I’ll surprise you.”

“I’ll see you soon. I love you,” he replied kindly.

A sudden pain hit my chest, making me wince as if he had just slapped me.

He hung up the phone, and I was left with a mix of emotions.

He turned to me and said, “Look, I came here to tell you that you need about $500,000 if you want to visit your father in prison.” He shoved his phone back into his pocket as he spoke. “If I remember…”

“I couldn’t speak. I just stared blankly at the ground. He stepped closer to me and crouched down so we were eye to eye. He made me look into his eyes.”

Ethan looked at her with a cruel smile. “If you want to see your father, just give up on school. Use the loan money to pay for it. You’ll get to watch him suffer, barely alive, behind bars.”

He paused for a moment before continuing, “Or you can choose a different path and become something better.”

“My mistress and I will pay off his debt completely,” she said. “You will still have to leave school, but it will save him from being tortured. The choice is yours, Judy.”

I swallowed hard, feeling a lump in my throat. My whole body tensed up as I processed her words.

He shook with anger, but then he smiled as he straightened up.

**Chapter 21**

“No matter what you choose, Judy, you will always be mine. It’s important for you to remember that. Now, if you’ll excuse me…”

I have a fiancé to take care of.

Without saying anything else, he turned and walked out of my room, leaving me alone with my thoughts.

I spent the rest of the night lying in bed, tears streaming down my face. I felt overwhelmed and heartbroken.

I had a bad feeling about what was about to happen. It made me feel sick to my stomach. At some point, my wolf sensed my distress and unblocked me. She seemed to know I needed her comfort after everything Ethan had just put me through.

Could he really do this to me? How could he do this to my family?

My poor father was lying in prison because of him, and there was nothing I could do.

Hours after Ethan had left, I finally began to drift off to sleep.

I was suddenly jolted awake by a sharp pain that shot through my body. It felt like my insides were on fire, starting from a mark on my neck. I screamed in agony and instinctively placed my hand over the painful spot, desperate to ease the hurt.

Every bone in my body ached. My wolf whimpered and cried with me, sharing in the pain.

“Mate,” I heard my wolf cry. “Another… woman!”

In that moment, I understood what was happening.

She was trying to say something.

Ethan was with another woman!